The cool hotel guide: The Bingham, Richmond, Surrey

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The location, rather than the rooms, makes a stay at The Bingham special

Looking around our room at the Bingham, we wondered whether it was worth £225
a night (breakfast excluded).

It was a funny, slightly cramped abode, with a rather meanly small
four-poster. In the curve of the bay window was a tiny canoe-shaped chaise
longue; decorative rather than practical. The bathroom was incredibly poky;
space for one person only by a narrow bathtub.

A Toshiba television was fixed high on a wall so that it could not be
adjusted. On the desk below this we found a stack of hotel guides, with a
little picture frame advertising how much each one